Making a poll is not a bad idea, but I think making a mod and telling others why it was done would have suited it just fine. Illwinter won't be changing anything before it is tested, and I have learned that scandinavians can refuse otherwise perfectly good idea just because others want it too... (I'm a Finn, though, so this might not be true for Swedes...
) In short, I think that the idea is good but just posting a link to a mod and checking if anyone is using it after a while would have been better than making a poll.